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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. |
| metaphor | comparing two unlike things without like or as |
| simile | comparing two unlike things using like or as |
| onomatopoeia | use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggest the sound of what is being described |
| perosonification | an animal, object or idea is given human form or characteristics |
| repetition | whan a poet uses the same words or phrases over and over again |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of a poem that uses end rhymes |
| rhythm | the pattern created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| stanza | a group of lines froming a unit in a poem |
| symbolism | when a person, a place, an object or an action stands for something else |
| theme | a poem's central or main idea that gives insight about life or human nature |
| narrative poetry | poem that tells a story |
| free verse | poetry that has no fixed pattern, meter, rhyme line length or stanza arrangement |
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